2020 SCHH Call for Proposals |
2020 Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing
UPDATED Submission Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2020
The theme of the 2020 Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing (SCHH) is A Place to Call Home: Inspiring Solutions in Housing and Homelessness. We know that safe, stable, affordable and accessible homes keep families healthy, kids in school, and help people find employment. Unfortunately, the number of safe, decent homes for people earning lower incomes continues to shrink. Together, we can discover best practices and explore innovative approaches to address housing challenges and develop sustainable and inclusive communities.
Topics of Interest for Homelessness Include:
The theme of the 2020 Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing (SCHH) is A Place to Call Home: Inspiring Solutions in Housing and Homelessness. We know that safe, stable, affordable and accessible homes keep families healthy, kids in school, and help people find employment. Unfortunately, the number of safe, decent homes for people earning lower incomes continues to shrink. Together, we can discover best practices and explore innovative approaches to address housing challenges and develop sustainable and inclusive communities.
Topics of Interest for Homelessness Include:
- Innovative housing solutions for vulnerable individuals, including: persons experiencing homelessness, the aging population, youth, veterans, LGBTQIA+, survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual assault, persons living with HIV/AIDS, persons with disabilities and consumers with mental illness.
- Presentations on public benefit programs.
- Successful examples of coordinated entry among CoCs, including examples of how your CoC is serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through coordinated entry.
- Successful programs that provide housing and services to people who have been trafficked.
- Permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing successes.
- Criminal justice reform, housing and decriminalization of homelessness.
- Innovations in addressing housing needs of rural populations, farmworkers and vulnerable populations.
- Self-care for staff/clients.
- Best practices in HMIS implementation, including a focus on system performance measures and data quality.
- Best practices on grant administration.
- Cultural competency in homeless service provision.
- Ensuring program design and service delivery practice reflect the value of racial equity
- Nonprofit preparedness and planning for a public health crisis.
Topics of Interest for Affordable Housing Include:
- Partnering with healthcare and social service organizations to offer supportive services at affordable housing developments.
- Sustainable development practices for new construction or renovation of single or multi-family homes, including energy efficiency, solar, and weatherization opportunities.
- Collaborations for neighborhood redevelopment, including public housing authorities, health providers such as federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), transportation providers and other partners.
- Financial resources for small-scale, affordable housing development in rural communities.
- Land trusts, limited equity co-ops and other ownership structures.
- Accessing the resources available through your Housing Finance Authority.
- Best practices in property management and resident services.
- Sustainable housing models for extremely low-income earning households.
- Community organizing – engaging low income communities to have their voice heard
- Local housing trust funds.
- Telling Our Story – communicating impact and building awareness.
- Creative adaptive reuse of commercial, religious, historic, or blighted property.
- Nonprofit preparedness and planning for a public health crisis.